As we are about to move into a new year, I wanted to share with you a gardening resource that you can use throughout the year. It’s the UF/IFAS Extension North Florida Gardening Calendar created by ...

In a recent article, I provided a list of my favorite native shrubs. Then the oakleaf hydrangeas began to bloom and the firebush emerged from its winter-dormant roots, and I realized the list should ...

Did you start a few quarantine projects? Maybe baking bread? Planting a veggie garden? Cleaning out and organizing the garage? Redesign and plant new shrub bed or plant trees in the landscape? I ...

North Florida and South Georgia have a wealth of native shrubs. Many are quite common and well known, such as American beautyberry. Others occur throughout our area but are relatively unknown in the ...

Despite its off-putting name, the bat-faced cuphea, native to Mexico, is a fine little shrub for Central Florida. The species (Cuphea llavea) grows two to three feet tall in sun or bright filtered ...

This dense shrub with evergreen foliage is perfect for creating a hedge or privacy fence to hide ugly features or limit the ...

The purple-haired leaf peepers certainly don’t arrive by the busloads for North Florida’s fall foliage, but that does not mean we don’t have our own version of colorful foliage. It is more like late ...

Gardening is a fun hobby because there are so many great plants to grow. We grow plants for the food that they produce for us and wildlife, for their fragrant flowers, for the shade they provide. Then ...

Fill your landscapes with diversity! Our vibrant landscapes should exude a mix of different groundcovers, perennials, annuals, shrubs and trees. Landscapes provide tremendous value when we diversify ...

There have been a number of landscape improvements going in while many of us are safe at home. Gardening in general is a pleasant activity, one that benefits the body, mind, and the appearance and ...

This has been a great year of cool-season container color thanks to the addition of a little Florida Sunshine. Your first thought might be that the cloud cover finally broke and the sun was shining ...